Building construction



Oct. 5 1926. h 1,601,852

R. H. CLARK BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Filed Oct. 8, 1925 INVENTOR ATTORNEY ent parts of a building wall.

the sheathing 2 is a specially "formed metal lath 3, comprising body portions 4 of about the width of the boards employed for the wide siding covering the wall or a house in- Patented Oct. 5 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUSSELL H. 0

My invention relates to building construction and more particularly to the wall of a detached house or residence, the principal object of theinvention being to provide a stucco wall having the appearance or" what is commonly known as wide siding.

In accomplishing this object I have provided improved details of structure, the preferred forms ct which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a wall constructed in accordance with my invention, a part of the plaster or stucco covering being removed to permit illustration of the s a vertical, of a p Referring more in ings:

1 designates sheathing,

tended for residential connecting adjacent body portions a so that when the lath is applied to the flat sheathing with the shoulders a the body portions will incline downwardly and outwardly so that their lower portions are spaced from the w l'l hen the lath has sheathing as described, it is plaster 6 and the plaster scraped to form flat portions of the lath and offsets beneath the shoulders 5 so that when the lath has been completely covered ith the plaster, the wall will have the appear the shouldered portions giving the impression of the overlapped edges of the boards 1 art ot the buil wall studs and sneathing.

Fig 3 is a detail, perspective view of a portion of the metal lath.

Fig. 1 is a horizontal section, figuratively illustrating the ribs in the lath for spacing the lath from the sheathing.

the studding and 2 the which ordinarily form compon- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed October 8, 1925. Serial No. 61,365.

applied.

wherein LARK, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

of the lath from the sheathing under the pressure of applicaton o the lath, I provide the la ribs 7, to engage the she the width of the body por and provide a backing for tain its contour while t t the plaster to tlIWltll indented athing throughout tion of the latter the lath to main ie plaster is being While thepresent wall construction will require more plaster than an ordinary flat stucco wall because of the spacing above the shoulders of the body portions into which the plaster must be filled, it is the more attractive appearance of a wall conbelieved that structed in accordance with my invention sectional, perspective ding, illustrating the tional cost.

ters Patent is outwardly and detail to the drawfollowing the contour Applied to use, and shoulders 5 rranged horizontally, wall-covering sections.

all by the shoulders 5. been applied to the cove. ed with trowelled and faces over the body ance of wide siding,

of the actual wide siding construction.

In order to maintain the proper spacing 1. In building construct on the wall for carrying downwar constituting a vertical series of horizontal wall sections. 2. In building construct on the wall for carrying p outwardly and downwardly inclined portions, horizontal conne ribs spacing the inclined wall, and plaster carried the contour of said means, stituting a series of integral, overhanging RUSSELL H. CLARK.

will more than offset the objectionot addilVhat I claim and desire to secure by Letion, a wall, means laster, comprising dly inclined portions terminating horizontally in inset shoulders, and plaster covering said means and thereof, the whole overhanging,

ion, a wall, means laster, comprising cting shoulders and portions from the by and following the whole conruction, a wall, com- 1 lath attached to the outwardly and ortions, a horithe. lower edge upper edge of and inset ribs 'ng same from the ied by the lath ering in horizon- 

